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Best Homemade Treatments for Oily Skin
Oily facial skin can be quite a feat to battle each day. Due to the overactive oil glands in the skin, it seems as though your oil supply will never end. But remember before you go condemning your face. It is the same oil glands that supply your face with the supple young look that everyone compliments on.
There are countless herbs and home remedies that you can use to help manage your complexion. Here is a list of some of the herbs that you can use and why they are so awesome for your skin!
First and foremost- Rose Petals: Spoiler alert- receiving roses from that special someone is great, but using rose petals as an ingredient on your skin is even better for you! This should come as no surprise; rose petals are in many personal care products, and there is a reason for this! Products that contain roses (aka rose petals) work as great tonics for the skin.
Since, logically speaking our skin is aging and maturing each day, you can use rose water tonic to help aid your facial skin. Why you ask? Well, rose petals contain Vitamin C which is good for the skin. It also has the wonderful ability of re hydrating your skin, as well as helps to soothe irritated skin. Ha, look at that… roses literally help irritated wives and irritated skin. Bonus!
Chamomile: This amazing herb is completely soothing for all skin types. Using Chamomile in your facial treatment regime will not only soften the skin, but also helps wrinkles and stretch marks. The aftereffects of using chamomile will allow your skin to glow with radiance. You can also use chamomile infused water to make eye compress. Using this compress will reduce redness and puffiness.
Chamomile contains Bisabolol. This natural alcohol is the anti "KING" of skin healing; anti-inflammatory, anti-irritant, and anti-microbial.
Recipe for Chamomile Apple Facial: This facial cleanser works great to remove dirt, debris, and dead skin cells.
1. Cut 1 apple into slices, remove seeds and stem.
2. Puree apple slices into a liquid like form. Add ½ ounce chamomile flowers to apple. Add 1 teaspoon honey and stir all ingredients together.
3. Sprinkle in small amounts of fine, raw oatmeal. Stir this together and repeat adding oatmeal until you have a smooth constant consistency.
4. Avoiding your eyes and mouth, appeal the mixture to your face. Let the mixture set for 5 minutes.
5. Rinse facial off with warm water. Pat face dry.
6. Optional: You can complete the facial by using a toner once your face has dried.
Besides facials, people with oily skin can also benefit from steam treatments. Here is the recipe for an awesome herbal steam treatment.
Lemongrass (astringent) with Lavender (soothing, antiseptic and normalizes):
Using a homemade herbal steam facial once or twice a week can help you balance and tone your facial skin. The dirt and excess oil of your facial skin can be released from your pores by using the steam from an herbal stream treatment. What is great about the addition of herbs is the balancing and toning properties, as well as cleansing. Since when you use a steam treatment, your pores are temporarily opened, these properties are quickly absorbed into the skin.
Recipe for Herbal Steam Facial:
1. Simmer 4 cups of water with 2 Tablespoons of dried lavender and 2 Tablespoons Lemongrass on the stove top.
2. Next, pour the water and herbs into a large glass bowl.
3. Place a towel over your head and put your face into the steam coming off of the bowl. Stay over the stream with your eyes closed. Do this for about 10 minutes.
4. When 10 minutes has expired, rinse your face with cool water. Let your face air dry.
Rosemary: A natural astringent that aids in toning oily skin, this is a key herb to use. By infusing this ingredient into hot water, you can make a facial toner that will leave your face feeling clean. Store any leftover rosemary toner in the fridge.
Other great herbs to use for treating oily skin are:
Comfrey: Comfrey contains allantoin. This protein quickens cell renewal.
Elderflower: This herb is great for smoothing out wrinkles, soothing sunburn, and can even fade freckles and mother's masks.
If you would like the benefits of any combination of these herbs without necessarily wanting to make a facial product, you have the option of a "facial free for all". In a teabag, using any, all, or some of the herbs, place several tablespoons of the herb/herb mixture into the teabag and tie shut. Then, next time you shower, place one or two of the filled tea bags in the bottom of the shower. The hot water from the shower will soak the herbs; and the steam of the shower will cleanse your skin. And, since the average shower takes 10-15 minutes, it is the perfect time allotment and your skin will never feel better.
If oily skin is not your facial skin type, be on the lookout. In a future blog post, we will be featuring Best Homemade Treatments for Dry Skin.
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Sparkles!!! Nicole
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This is a difficult post to write. I need to interrupt the very positive chi brought about by the very wonderful and positive response to the FOUR DHARMAKAYA RELIC MANTRAS and of course to the numerous testimonials about the effectivity of the WISH FULFILLING AND BUDDHA'S BLESSING MANTRA PENDANT. I'm not exactly sure whether I'm doing the right thing or not. But I just have to write something about it. While this is my blog and I can write practically anything I want to write, I should acknowledge the fact that this blog is public and while I write about Feng Shui, staying positive and Buddhism, I'm afraid at this moment I cannot truly espouse what I write and say forgiveness is a good Feng Shui enhancer. At the moment, I'm unable to let go of something disturbing that I saw yesterday and unable to say that I'm not angry.
Yesterday, chances are, like most people who owns a Facebook account, you would have seen the disturbing video of three Asian women kicking, stepping on a puppy. And chances are like me you would have clicked on the video, watch a little and close it because it was just too difficult to watch. So much cruelty!
The video I'm talking about shows three Asian women on barefoot, kicking and stepping on a helpless puppy! The video lasted approximately about 20 minutes, but I only saw about 5 minutes of it and had to turn it off, I simply couldn't take it. I found out later on TV Patrol (local 6 o'clock news here in the Philippines), that the puppy died! I also showed the video to a friend, but he only saw 2 minutes of it and decided that he couldn't take it any further.
Having some puppies of my own, I really couldn't understand how could somebody be so cruel to a helpless puppy! And this was my sentiment before I even found out that the puppy died! It's simply crazy! To be honest, I don't understand such cruelty.
According to the news and after that when I researched about it, I found out that the video is not unique, there are several of that kind of video! In fact, there is a whole website dedicated to it!
The video is called Crush Videos!
Apparently Crush Videos is a form a sexual perversion! Pardon for the term and for the judgment if this is indeed judgment but I will call them perverts! Perverts can request can make a request as to what kind of animal they want crushed! So it can be a puppy, a kitten, a rabbit, etc! Also, they can request how they want it crushed!!!!
Seriously, it amazed me that there is people who take sexual satisfaction in seeing women crushed animals to death! But I'm more negatively amazed and repulsed with the fact that they are people who are willing to do it! Apparently, the couple who owns such website are Filipinos!!! I don't get it! How can they even have discovered that such an evil perversion exists! And how could they even decide to host it!!! I simply don't understand it!
I'm really sorry that I'm veering away from my usual post. I try to make all post positive but this is simply so evil and out of the radar from most people that I cannot not write about them! This has to be stopped! This has to be stopped just like all crimes have to be stopped! But we have to try and make our voice loud because the ones being abused and crushed are helpless and can't fight for themselves!
Again, I'm sorry if I seem negative here! That's not the intention. I just hope something positive comes out of this post!
When I first had my fur babies, for a day it got me worried whether I can properly take care of them. Little did I know that there are people who are so cruel that they are able to slowly torture a helpless dog to death all for their sexual satisfaction and money!!!
I hope I'm not committing a sin by sincerely hoping that whoever did this to the puppy on the video be brought to justice. Be it they the paying sexual pervert, the host or the paid women who crushed the dog to death! It is almost not enough for me to know that karma will go and haunt them for what they did. I sincerely hope that they get caught and pay for their killing the puppy. I hope I'm not sinning for hoping this. I think I am but I can't help it. I hope that I learn to be compassionate enough to forgive them, even if I don't know them personally. But right now I hope that they pay for what they did.
Last night, before putting my puppies to bed, I sincerely felt that they're happy to be with me. It's almost as if its in their eyes. And with the happy look of my dogs face, with their wagging tails, I was reminded that there are a lot more puppies, dogs, and other animals out there that are suffering. From here on, I commit to light incense for them, but more than that I will not just be a happy pet parent to my dogs, but I commit to do something for the neglected dogs!
How I wish I had been more exemplary in terms of how I've written this post. It would have been better if I were more espousing forgiveness and justice. But right now, I'm being a human here. I'm unable to take the violence that I saw.
If you wish to know more about Crush Videos and help stop it, please check out the STOP CRUSH WEBSITE.

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The Career Development Quarterly (CDQ) is the official journal of the National Career Development Association (NCDA). The purpose of CDQ is to foster career development through the design and use of career interventions and publish articles on career counseling, individual and organizational career development, work and leisure, career education, career coaching, and career management.
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GOSHEN — Darcie M. Miller, Orange County's mental health commissioner, has been elected treasurer of the New York state Conference of Local Mental Hygiene Directors Inc.
GOSHEN — Darcie M. Miller, Orange County's mental health commissioner, has been elected treasurer of the New York state Conference of Local Mental Hygiene Directors Inc.
Miller, who has been working in the field of mental health and hygiene for nearly two decades, was named Orange County's mental health commissioner in March 2012.
The CLMHD is comprised of local mental hygiene directors and commissioners in all of the state's 57 counties and the New York City.
It advances state and local policies, practices, laws and regulation and funding, for the purpose of ensuring comprehensive, integrated and cost-effective systems of care to meet the needs of those persons, and their families, affected by mental illness, developmental disability, and/or chemical dependency.
County mental hygiene directors and commissioners oversee the planning and financing of each county's network of mental health, mental retardation, alcoholism and substance abuse services.
The membership represents collective county governmental interests on mental hygiene policy and budgetary initiatives. The conference has statutory responsibility to comment upon proposed rules, regulations and policies involving local mental hygiene services plans and programs.
PIKE COUNTY, Pa. — Dr. Lisa Pathak and Valerie Seitz have been appointed to the board of directors for Safe Haven of Pike County, Pa., joining the effort against domestic violence and sexual assault.
Seitz, a Pike County, Pa., resident for the past 20 years, is a graduate of Delaware Valley High School. She has been with Wells Fargo Bank and its predecessors for the past 15 years, and is currently one of their store managers.
Seitz has spent a great deal of her time involved in altruistic endeavors for the community, including volunteering for the United Way, where she worked on specific events for many years. In addition, Seitz offered her time to Pike County Children and Youth Services, working their Backpack Drive for seven years.
Pathak is board-certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics. She received her doctorate of medicine from Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City and is licensed to practice internal medicine and pediatrics in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Currently, Pathak holds hospital privileges at Newton (N.J.) Medical Center and Bon Secours Hospital in Port Jervis, as well as serving as a major in the U.S. Air Force Reserves, recently joining the Air National Guard.
TOWN OF WALLKILL — Crystal Run Healthcare, led by its cardiology division, hosted a fundraiser to help support the American Heart Association's National Wear Red Day.
The providers and staff at Crystal Run Healthcare's 15 locations donated money and wore red on Feb. 1 to help raise funds and awareness about heart disease and its effects on women.
Employees purchased red dress pins to wear along with their red clothing, as well as paper hearts to show their support.
In total, $2,460 was raised by Crystal Run Healthcare and donated to the American Heart Association.
In addition to participating in National Wear Red Day, Crystal Run Healthcare physicians organize monthly walks called "Walk With a Doc," which encourage heart health.
"Raising awareness about heart disease for women is very important and is why I am very happy to have coordinated our efforts as a practice for National Wear Red Day. This was a great way for us to bring attention to this cause and help raise money for education and the fight against heart disease," said Dr. Sandeep Singh, cardiologist and National Wear Red Day coordinator for Crystal Run Healthcare.
TOWN OF WALLKILL — The Greater Hudson Valley Health System, made up of Catskill Regional Medical Center and Orange Regional Medical Center, was recently honored by the Northern Metropolitan Hospital Association with the 2012 System Quality and Patient Safety Award for Project ZERO CLABSI (Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infection).
Specifically, this initiative focused on reducing bloodstream infections in intensive care patients.
The multidisciplinary team introduced several new processes specifically designed to decrease CLABSI rates.
This included the implementation of a central line maintenance checklist that clearly identified action steps to be taken. The checklist was used in multiple ways, by different personnel, to reduce CLABSI rates.
As a result of combined efforts, the intensive care units at Orange Regional and Catskill Regional have been CLABSI-free for 15 months.
The nomination submitted by the Greater Hudson Valley Health System was one of 15 applications reviewed by a panel of seven judges. This is the third year of the competition and allows member hospitals an opportunity to showcase their success in achieving excellence in patient safety, quality of care and operational effectiveness.
ORANGE COUNTY — A joint venture between the Miles of Hope Breast Cancer Foundation and Porco Energy of Orange County will bring donations from the pink fuel truck to the Hudson Valley foundation.
"Pinkie, the pink fuel truck, will deliver fuel all over Orange County, and Miles of Hope will reap the benefits," said Pari Forood, foundation executive director.
According to Nicole Porco, "We at Porco Energy will donate $.01 for every gallon delivered, which amounts to approximately $3,000 annually."
"We are very grateful to Porco for this generous donation," added Forood. "This makes a total of four vehicles decked in their finest pink driving around the Hudson Valley in honor of all those affected by breast cancer who we have helped and all those we hope to reach.
"Spreading the word about Miles of Hope only makes us more visible and able to help more people. Thanks to companies like Porco, we have given away more than $1 million in 10 years to those who need us right here in the Hudson Valley."
Miles of Hope is a 501 (c)(3) public charity with a mission to fund support services for people affected by breast cancer within the eight counties of the Hudson Valley.
For more information, visit milesofhope.org.
TOWN OF WALLKILL — The Greater Hudson Valley Health System — made up of Catskill Regional Medical Center and Orange Regional Medical Center — in partnership with iTriage, now offers smartphone users a free health care app that provides instant information about medical conditions, possible treatments, services offered by local health care providers and more.
The free consumer iTriage app enables residents in nearby communities to find detailed information about Catskill Regional Medical Center and Orange Regional Medical Center, such as hospital services, specialties, directions and links to social media.
The app also lets users research medical symptoms and conditions, learn about possible causes and treatment options, find medication information for treatment of a specific condition and access a nationwide database of hospitals, urgent care facilities and physicians.
iTriage is available as a free download for iPhone and Android phones and is accessible from any Internet-enabled device at iTriageHealth.com.
TOWN OF WALLKILL — Orange Regional Medical Center and Northern Metropolitan Hospital Association, and its member hospitals in Westchester and the Hudson Valley, are participating in the Vet Connect program.
Vet Connect can be accessed on NorMet's home page at normet.org.
Once users click on the Vet Connect icon, they are brought to pages that provide direct links to hospital job banks, military skills translation assistance and health care career training programs for veterans.


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can i get logs from n**a with Fausto and Un-powered season interface Logger (with a card slot) in my dreambox 800hd??
Do i need a card in my interface slot (original or gamma that still open the packeg??)
I tried this thing with bluedragon as Cryptowork at UPC packed
and it work's..
Is there an other way to get logs from my dreambox ???
I have tried all the old Programs irdeto2logger,DVBlogder,Wallbanger.....
Is there something else????


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Best-selling game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is being investigated in the US over reports that it contains sexually explicit mini-games hidden in its code.
The controversy surrounds a download available on the net which is said to unlock secret sex scenes.
Game makers Rockstar said they were complying with the inquiry, by the industry body that sets age ratings.
If the findings were to lead to an adult-only age rating, it could limit sales from major retail outlets....
Software code developed by GTA Dutch fan Patrick Wildenborg is said to have unlocked mini-games in the PC version of San Andreas that allows players to make game characters perform sexually explicit acts.
The industry body which regulates games in the US, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), said it had opened an investigation into the so-called Hot Coffee modification....
The fan at the centre of the controversy, Patrick Wildenborg, has said he did not create the sex scenes, but enabled them with his modification.
"But all this material is completely inaccessible in an unmodded version of the game," he said in a statement on his website.
"It can therefore not be considered a cheat, Easter Egg or hidden feature But is most probably just leftover material from a gameplay idea that didn't make the final release."
It's hard to believe the manufacturer would deliberately impair the saleability of such a successful product. Could they really have thought that something available on the internet would only be noticed by people who were happy about it?
I like the way Wildenborg not only figured out how to unlock the material but also came up with the best excuse for Rockstar to use now that it's been discovered -- "leftover material."


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Please Ensure ABSTRACT and LICENSE fields in your META.yml/json
I've been opening quite a few bugs lately for distributions failing these 2 criteria, so, I figured I'd save everyone some effort and unify it cohesively.
While it may seem a trivial squabble,
ABSTRACT and
LICENSE components of your meta-data are reasonably important for communicating what your dist is to the world, for both human and automated consumers.
ABSTRACT field manifests itself in quite a few places:
- Search Results
- Author Module listings
- https://metacpan.org/author/DCONWAY # All the empty lines are due to the lack of an abstract
- Data from
- http://api.metacpan.org/release/Acme-Bleach # abstract exists
- http://api.metacpan.org/release/DCONWAY/Attribute-Types-0.10 # No Abstract
And the
LICENSE field appears in a few places as well:
- On the release page
- On each modules page
- In
MetaCPAN::APIresults - http://api.metacpan.org/release/Acme-Bleach # license '
- http://api.metacpan.org/release/Dist-Zilla# license '
- http://api.metacpan.org/release/Dist-Zilla# license '
For me personally, these 2 fields are essential data which I have to use in downstream packaging ( Gentoo Ebuilds ), and having the fields correctly populated makes it much easier to automate packaging in a reliable way.
Licensing Options
What values you can use for a license descriptor depends somewhat on what toolchain you're using, and what level of the CPAN Meta Spec it supports.
Meta v1
The V1 metaspec has a rather short selection of licenses you can choose from.
These licenses are listed in the Module::Build::API:
apache- Apache License, Version 2.0.
apache_1_1- Apache Software License, Version 1.1
artistic- Artistic License
artistic_2- Artistic 2.0 License
bsd- BSD License
gpl- GNU General Public License
lgpl- GNU Lesser General Public License
mit- MIT License
mozilla- Mozilla Public License.
open_source- Some other Open Source Initiative-approved license listed at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/.
perl- The same terms as Perl itself.User may choose between either the GPL or the Artistic license.
restrictive- The distribution may not be redistributed without special permission from the author and/or copyright holder.
unrestricted- The distribution is licensed under a license that is not approved by www.opensource.org but that allows distribution without restrictions.
Meta v2
The Meta v2 Spec has a much wider and more accurate set of supported licenses, as well as the capacity to specify multiple licenses.
These licenses are for the most part documented in Software::License :
agpl_3- GNU Affero General Public License, Version 3
apache_1_1- The Apache Software License, Version 1.1
apache_2_0- The Apache License, Version 2.0
artistic_1- The Artistic License
artistic_2- The Artistic License 2.0
bsd- The (three-clause) BSD License
unrestricted- the "public domain"-like CC0 license, version 1.0
freebsd- The FreeBSD License (aka two-clause BSD)
gfdl_1_2- The GNU Free Documentation License v1.2
gfdl_1_3- The GNU Free Documentation License v1.3
gpl_1- GNU General Public License, Version 1
gpl_2- GNU General Public License, Version 2
gpl_3- GNU General Public License, Version 3
lgpl_2_1- GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1
lgpl_3_0- GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 3
mit- The MIT (aka X11) License
mozilla_1_0- Mozilla Public License 1.0
mozilla_1_1- The Mozilla Public License 1.1
restricted- describes a "license" that gives no license for re-use
openssl- The OpenSSL License
perl_5- The Perl 5 License (Artistic 1 & GPL 1)
open_source- Some other Open Source Initiative-approved license listed at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/.
qpl_1_0- The Q Public License, Version 1.0
ssleay- The Original SSLeay License
sun- Sun Internet Standards Source License (SISSL)
zlib- The zlib License
Specifying the metadata
ExtUtils::MakeMaker as far as I'm aware only officially supports Meta v1 license types.
[CORRECTION] But, it would appear, that, assuming you have a recent enough version of
CPAN::Meta and
ExtUtils::MakeMaker installed, you can specify either a v2-style license or a v1-style license. If you specify a v1 style license,
CPAN::Meta will upconvert it before it emits
META.json, and if you specify a v2 style license, that will go as-is in
META.json and be downconverted to v1 style before going into
META.yml. ( Make sure you read the section on the caveats later ).
Though, I'd advise using v2 style where possible, as you're less likely to lose intent in downconversion.
Setting Abstract and License can be done a variety of ways:
# Explictitly Set Abstract
ABSTRACT => 'A module that eats bees'
# Try get the abstract from a module
ABSTRACT_FROM => 'Path/To/File.pm'
# Explicitly Set a v1 License
LICENSE => 'perl'
( https://metacpan.org/module/ExtUtils::MakeMaker#Using-Attributes-and-Parameters )
Despite being mostly a wrapper of sorts for
Module::Install provides some enhancement with ability to parse and extract metadata from existing files. But alas, it is still limited to the v1 license set.
# try determine license/abstract ( amongst other things ) from Foo::Bar
all_from 'lib/Foo/Bar.pm'
# explicitly specify the abstract
abstract 'Something that eats elephants'
# try determine abstract from a file
abstract_from 'lib/Mammoth/Eater.pm'
# explicitly define a v1 license
license 'perl';
# try determine license from a file
license_from 'lib/Great/Cthulhu.pm'
( https://metacpan.org/module/Module::Install::API#all_from-Module::Install::Metadata- )
I personally like
Module::Build better than the previous 2 modules, but everyone is free to disagree and have their personal preferences. And indeed, it would appear
Module::Build versions greater than 0.3624 can specify version 2 license types by referring to the appropriate subclass of
# Explicitly define abstract
dist_abstract => 'Something that eats Cthulhus',
# If not explicitly defined, MB looks for the same module it got the version from
# and tries to get the abstract out of that
# Explicitly set to use Software::License::GPL_2
license => 'GPL_2',
# v1 => gpl
# v2 => gpl_2
Dist::Zilla has in my opinion a much higher standard of metadata quality, and making Abstract and License available are practically a requirement of building a dist with it.
; dist.ini
license = Perl_5
Determining the abstract is usually done automatically, and most prefer this approach. It does so by determining the "Main Module" ( usually the one with the shortest string length ), and then extracting the abstract from that.
This can be overridden via:
main_module = path/to/module.pm
And you can always define the abstract explicitly:
abstract = Dist::Zilla goes RAWR and BITES OFF CTHULHUS NOSES.
V1 Caveats
Unfortunately, there are some problems with all the toolchains that only understand v1 spec natively, and thats even when they do emit a META.json file, that file is upconverted from a v1 META.yml format, which yeilds a few difficulties.
Mostly, the license you specified in the configuration might not be the license that ends up in the V2 meta file, and likewise, might not be the value that gets displayed via MetaCPAN's API.
This is due to the inherent limitation of the initial license types.
V1 for example, only had
gpl, not
gpl_1 ,
gpl_2 and
gpl_3, so when you upconvert
gpl to a meta2 license type, it can't guess which one you meant, and instead, defaults to simply
( see more licenses upconversion issues )
And inversely, if you have a V2-only system, anything that downconverts META.json to v1 if it needs a v1 file( instead of doing the right thing and reading the META.yml, which is already in v1 format ) , will risk having the license type broken:
( Nice big list of the downconversions here: https://metacpan.org/source/RJBS/CPAN-Meta-2.113640/lib/CPAN/Meta/Converter.pm#L179 )
Anything that simultaneously sets v1 and v2 licenses by using Software::License should be fine however, its just the conversions between Meta versions that causes issues. But its still sadly something that needs to be taken into account till all parts of the toolchain and running on the v2 spec.


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Last week I was running some cairo perf traces on the Nexus7. Cairo-perf traces are a great way to measure 2d graphics performance and to use those numbers to measure the effects of code, hardware, or driver changes. One other cool thing is that with this tool you can do a benchmark on something like Chromium or Firefox without even needing the application installed.
The purpose of this post is to briefly explain how to build the traces, how to run the tools on Ubuntu, and finally a quick look at some results on the Nexus7.
Before running the tools you need to get setup and build the traces. A full clone and build will use several gigs of disk space. Since the current N7 image only builds a 6G or so filesystem, you may want to build the traces in a pbuilder. The disk I/O on the N7 is also pretty slow, so I found that building in the pbuilder, even though it runs inside a qemu, is much faster on my Core i5 + SSD.
In the steps below I've tried to call out the things you can do to reduce the disk space.
Building the traces
1. Setup the build environment
sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev lzma git
2. Grab the traces from git
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/cairo-traces
3. (Optional) Remove unused files to save on disk space. Don't do this if you plan on submitting changes back upstream.
cd cairo-traces
rm -rf .git
4. Build the benchmarks, I used -j4 on my laptop and -j2 on the Nexus7. I didn't really investigate the optimal value.
make -j4 benchmarks
5. The benchmark directory is now ready to use for traces. If you built it on a different system, you only need to copy over this directory. You can delete the lzma files if you want.
The traces you are pixman version specific, so if you have a Raring based system like the Nexus7, you can't re-use them on a Precise based box.
Running cairo-perf-trace
1, Before you start, delete the ocitysmap trace from the benchmarks folder. It uses too much RAM and ended up locking up my N7.
2. If you are at the command line, connected via ssh for example, you need to set the display or it will segfault, simply run export DISPLAY=:0
3. Run the tool, I'd start first with a simple trace to make sure that everything is working.
CAIRO_TEST_TARGET=image cairo-perf-trace -i3 -r ./benchmark/gvim.trace > ~/result_image.txt
In that command above we did a few things, first we set the cairo backend. Image is a software renderer, you probably want to use xlib or xcb to test hardware. If you don't set the CAIRO_TEST_TARGET it will try all the back-ends, this will take a long long time and I don't recommend doing it. A simple way to get the tool to list them all is to set it to a bad value, for example
mfisch@caprica:~$ CAIRO_TEST_TARGET=mfisch cairo-perf-trace
Cannot find target 'mfisch'.
Known targets: script, xcb, xcb-window, xcb-window&, xcb-render-0.0, xcb-fallback, xlib, xlib-window, xlib-render-0_0, xlib-fallback, image, image16, recording
The next argument, -i3 tells it to run 3 iterations, this gives us a good set of data to work with. -r asks for raw output, which is literally just the amount of time the trace took to run. Finally ./benchmark/gvim.trace shows which trace to run. You can pass in a directory here and it will run them all, but I'd recommend trying that just one until you know that it's working. When you're running a long set of traces doing a tail -f on the result file can help assure you that it's working without placing too heavy of a load on the system. The hardware backend runs took almost all day to finish, so you should always be plugged into a power source when doing this.
The output should look something like this:
[ # ] backend.content test-size ticks-per-ms time(ticks) ...
[*] xlib.rgba chromium-tabs.0 1e+06 1962036000 1948712000 1938894000
Making Pretty Graphs
Once you have some traces you can make charts with cairo-perf-chart. This undocumented tool has several options which I determined by reading the code. I did send a patch to add a usage() statement to this tool, but nobody has accepted it yet. First, the basic usage, then the options:
cairo-perf-chart nexus7_fbdev_xlib.txt nexus7_tegra3_xlib.txt
cairo-perf-chart will build two charts with that command, one will be an absolute chart, on that chart, larger bars indicate worse performance. The second chart, the relative chart takes the first argument as the baseline and compares the rest of the results files against it. On the relative chart, a number below the zero line indicates that the results are slower than the baseline (which is the first argument to cairo-perf-chart.
Now a quick note about the useful arguments. cairo-perf-chart can take as many results files as you want to supply it when building graphs, if you'd like to compare more than two files. If you want to resize the chart, just pass –width= and –height=, defaults are 640×480. Another useful option is –html which generates an HTML comparison chart from the data. The only issue with this option is that you manually need to make a table header and stick it in to a basic HTML document.
Some Interesting Results
Now some results from the Nexus7 and they are actually pretty interesting. I compared the system with and without the tegra3 drivers enabled. Actually I just plain uninstalled the tegra3 drivers to get some numbers with fbdev. My first run used the image backend, pure software rendering. As expected the numbers are almost identical, since the software rendering is just using the same CPU+NEON.
The second set of results are more interesting. I switched to the xlib backend so we would get hardware rendering. With the tegra3 driver enabled we should expect a massive performance gain, right?
So as it turns out the tegra3 is actually way slower than fbdev and I don't know why. I think that this could be for a variety of reasons, such as unoptimized 2d driver code or hardware (CPU+NEON vs Tegra3 GPU).
Now that we have a method for gathering data, perhaps we can solve that mystery?
If you want to know more about the benchmarks or see some more analysis, you should read this great post which is where I found out most of the info on running the tools. If you want to know more background about the cairo-perf trace tools you might want to read this excellent blog post.


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The Apollo program was driven by the perceived national need to decisively demonstrate American technological prowess in the face of early Soviet space victories. Scientific lunar exploration was a secondary concern. In fact, some engineers saw lunar science as a distraction from the already daunting task of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.
The community of lunar scientists was small in May 1961, when President John F. Kennedy put the U.S. on the road to the moon. Nevertheless, lunar science had its energetic proponents. In early 1962, they saw to it that NASA's Office of Manned Space Flight (OMSF) asked NASA's Office of Space Science (OSS) to outline an Apollo science program. OSS appointed NASA physicist Charles Sonett to head up an ad hocworking group, and OMSF provided it with a set of guidelines.
The group's 12 members and nine consultants included U.S. Geological Survey geologist (and aspiring moonwalker) Eugene Shoemaker, geophysicist Paul Lowman, astronomers Gerard Kuiper and Thomas Gold, and chemist Harold Urey. They circulated their July 1962 draft report at the National Academy of Science's 10-week Iowa City meeting (17 June-31 August 1962) and within NASA, receiving (they said) "general endorsement" for their recommendations.
The final version of Sonett's report, published in December 1963 and labeled "for internal NASA use only. . .not for release to the general public," became the first in a series of influential Apollo planning documents that called for ambitious scientific exploration of the moon. Its recommendations touched on many aspects of Apollo mission planning.
The Sonett group called for all proposed Apollo landing sites to be photographed by automated Lunar Orbiter spacecraft prior to final selection. The Lunar Orbiter photographs would then be used to make detailed geological maps. This, the Sonett group argued, would save precious time during Apollo landing missions, since it would permit the astronauts to begin geological field work without first mapping their landing site.
The group urged that each two-person Apollo landing crew include a scientist-astronaut with a Ph.D. in geology and from five to 10 years of field experience. Eager geologists left behind on Earth would explore the moon vicariously through his descriptions and through real-time television transmitted from a camera mounted on his space suit. It acknowledged that Kennedy's end-of-decade deadline for reaching the moon would mean that Apollo scientist-astronauts would probably need to be drawn from the community of scientists already at work in 1962-1963. It assumed, however, that Apollo would be merely the first U.S. program of piloted lunar exploration, so urged that "graduate students and young post graduate scientists. . .be brought into the field of lunar science as potential astronauts as soon as possible."
The working group then turned to more technical matters. In its guidelines, OMSF had informed the Sonett group that the Apollo lunar space suit would "necessarily limit the crew's ability to act, particularly in performing precise manipulations." In its final report the group urged development of suits that would "permit a close approximation to unsuited limb, arm, and digital [finger] movements." OMSF had also told the group that a space-suited Apollo astronaut would probably be unable to travel more than a half-mile from his lunar lander, but raised the possibility of a rover or other mobility aids. The Sonett group argued that
reconnaissance beyond a one-half mile radius of the spacecraft will be a necessity. . .For example, a lunar ray, a feature of great interest, is probably a poor place to land, yet the capability of traveling to a ray area is clearly indicated. . .For scientific purposes, therefore, there should be the capability of reaching areas some 50 miles from a landing site.
OMSF had also informed the working group that NASA was considering development of an automated supply lander capable of delivering to the moon up to 15 tons of cargo. The lander might carry roving vehicles, beacons for guiding an Apollo piloted lander to a safe touchdown nearby, and supplies for extending Apollo electricity generation and life support capabilities. The Sonett group urged OMSF to proceed with supply lander development, noting that the planned Apollo piloted lander would carry supplies and equipment inadequate to accomplish "even the modest scientific program recommended."
OMSF had listed Apollo missions with lunar surface stays of from four to 24 hours. The Sonett group proposed that OMSF double the minimum surface stay time for the first landing mission. The astronauts would check out their lander for four hours and take turns exploring away from the lander for four hours. During their moonwalks, they would collect up to 100 pounds of rocks, test soil strength, and study whether solar heating caused moon dust to flow like a highly viscous liquid, as theorized by group member Thomas Gold. The group acknowledged, however, that "an accident" might limit exploration to one hour. In that case, a single moonwalker would hurriedly collect about 50 pounds of geological samples near the lunar lander.
The group envisioned a five-day Apollo mission with four days of uninterrupted exploration, during which the two astronauts would drive a rover up to 10 miles from their landing site. They would also drill a hole up to 20 feet deep and insert a heat probe, collect samples "for biological purposes," and emplace a seismograph, a micrometeorite detector, and other instrument packages. The group expected that its instruments would be linked by cables to a "central station" containing a radio transmitter. This would use a nuclear source to generate electricity so that it could relay data from the instruments to Earth for months or years.
OMSF had asked that the Sonett group assume "more than one but less than ten" Apollo landings at sites near the equator in the lunar hemisphere that faces Earth. The Sonett report recommended that the first Apollo piloted lander set down near Copernicus crater, and that no other Apollo landing sites be selected until after Lunar Orbiter spacecraft had photographed the moon. Sonett working group member Eugene Shoemaker was probably behind the site choice; he had spent a great deal of time studying Copernicus starting in the late 1950s as part of his effort to resolve the debate over whether lunar craters were primarily the result of volcanism or of asteroid impacts, and in order to established the stratigraphic sequence of the moon's geological units.
In keeping with its conviction that lunar exploration would continue beyond Apollo, the Sonett report offered two lists with a total of 28 candidate landing sites. All of the sites were selected using photographs taken by Earth-based telescopes. The first list, compiled in June 1962 by Eugene Shoemaker and R. E. Eggleton, another U.S. Geological Survey geologist, took into account "possible landing conditions and trafficability, and prospects of discovering natural shelter and potential water supplies." Their 15 candidate landing sites included 9.8° North (N), 20.1° West (W), near the Copernicus central peaks; 13.1° N, 31° W, on a "typical lunar dome" near the crater Tobias Mayer; 20.4° N, 3° W, on the southeast edge of Mare Imbrium, near Mt. Huyghens in the Apennine Mountains; 12.6° N, 2° W, in Alphonsus crater, site of suspected on-going lunar volcanism; 7.7° N, 6.3° East (E), within four-mile-wide Hyginus ("one of the largest craters of likely volcanic origin"), at a bend in Hyginus Rille; 40.9° South (S), 11.1° W, on the "rubbly" north flank of the great ray crater Tycho; 50.6° S, 60.8° W, in Wargentin, an odd lava-filled crater; and 85° S, 45° E, in the south pole crater Amundsen, where, it was believed, permanently shadowed areas might preserve ice deposits.
The Sonett group's second list was compiled by geochemist Duane Dugan of NASA's Ames Research Center. Dugan's 13 sites included 3° S, 44° W, in the middle of the Flamsteed Ring, a submerged crater north of Flamsteed crater; 13° S, 2.3° W, in Alphonsus; 23.4° N, 43.3° W, near bright Aristarchus crater, flat-floored Herodotus crater, and sinuous Schröter's Rille (a region of suspected on-going lunar volcanism and many apparent volcanic features); 20.3° N, 3.4° W, on Mare Imbrium west of Mt. Huyghens; 28° N, 12° E, on Mare Serenitatis near the unusual crater Linne, site of suspected on-going lunar volcanism; 19.3° S, 40.2° W, on safe, flat ground in Mare Humorum near the south wall of dark-floored Gassendi crater; and 4.5° S, 25.5° E, near 65-mile-wide Theophilus crater, at the south end of Mare Tranquillitatis.
That the Shoemaker-Eggleton and Dugan lists had in common only Alphonsus and Huyghens-Apennine reflected the wide range of attractive candidate lunar landing sites. Some of the proposed sites, such as Amundsen, lay beyond the equatorial zone OMSF had said Apollo could reach. The working group asserted that "there is no question that sites of the greatest scientific interest lie outside the equatorial belt," and urged that NASA develop the "capability of landing in the equatorial belt, at the poles, and elsewhere."
NASA paid attention to the Sonett report and other advice from lunar scientists in planning Apollo missions, but the complex interplay of competing technical, scientific, and political requirements meant that it could not give the scientists all that they desired. Most notably, only one scientist-astronaut reached the moon: geologist Harrison Schmitt (image at top of post), who explored the Taurus-Littrow valley east of Mare Serenitatis with Eugene Cernan during the Apollo 17 mission (7-19 December 1972). Schmitt and Cernan spent three days on the moon in clumsy space suits, drilling with a core drill, deploying instruments and a heat-flow probe attached by cables to a nuclear-powered central station, and driving 35.9 kilometers on a jeep-like Lunar Roving Vehicle. All of this equipment arrived stowed on the Apollo 17 Lunar Module; no separate automated cargo lander was ever developed. Apollo 17 returned 110.5 kilograms of geologic samples to researchers on Earth.
Astronauts explored few of the sites Shoemaker, Eggleton, and Dugan selected. The reasons for this were manifold: the U.S. flew only six successful Apollo moon landing missions; NASA never became capable of landing men beyond the Nearside equatorial belt; new knowledge of the moon from robotic missions and orbiting Apollos made some of the sites appear less scientifically significant than had first been believed, or less attractive than newly found candidate sites; and no follow-on lunar landing program materialized. The first Apollo lunar landing, Apollo 11 (16-24 July 1969), spent about 21 hours on northern Mare Tranquillitatis, not in Copernicus; in fact, Copernicus remains unvisited today. Huyghens-Apennine became Hadley-Apennine; visited by Apollo 15 (26 July-7 August 1971), it is widely considered to be the most scientifically significant Apollo site.
Robots explored Alphonsus (Ranger 9, March 1965), the Flamsteed Ring (Surveyor 1, May-July 1966), and Tycho (Surveyor 7, January 1968). The lunar south pole and Aristarchus, as yet unvisited, are frequently mentioned as candidate landing sites for NASA's eventual return to the moon.
Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Apollo Experiments and Training on the Scientific Aspects of the Apollo Program, 15 December 1963.


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Tax experts warned advisors to be aware of the 57 federal tax provisions that expired at year end, which include the deduction for state and local sales tax, the above-the-line deduction for tuition and tax-free distributions from IRAs for charitable purposes.
The "on-again, off-again nature of expiring provisions creates a lot of uncertainty," said Jeff Porter, chairman of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' tax executive committee, on a recent call with reporters.
Edward Karl, vice president of taxation for the AICPA, noted on the call that there was little "impetus in Congress to move a separate extenders bill" by year end, even though AICPA would like to see one.
The extenders—a term that is interchangeable with expiring provisions—"for this year won't impact filing season, but will impact decision making," Karl said.
Melissa Labant, director of AICPA's tax advocacy, said on the call that practitioners should gear up for yet "another difficult filing season" in 2014.
Last winter, Labant said, "we had late congressional action and a late start to filing season, then we had a 16-day government shutdown during October filing season, which meant CPAs were unable to talk to anyone at the IRS during one of our busiest times of the year."
As it stands now, she continued, "we're looking at a one- or two-week delay in the upcoming filing season. I would strongly urge the IRS to start the filing season as early as possible."
Workload compression, Labant continued, "is already a challenge for our profession today, and I'm concerned that a government shutdown in January, even if only for a day or two, may push back the already delayed start to filing season."
Said Labant, "Hopefully the IRS is anticipating and preparing now for a possible government shutdown in January, just in case."
In October, the IRS announced that filing season would be delayed at least a week, starting Jan. 26, but possibly two weeks, until Feb. 4.


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I want to use together raster and vector graphics, I have the following situation:
- When I use vgimagedraw alone (no path drawing) a 32 sARGB image is displayed correctly, with the alpha channel OK (I can see the clear color just OK)
- If I draw some paths, even just one simple path the image is drawn but the alpha channel is ignored. The pixels that should appear transparent are now solid black for instance
Is this something expected? do I need to do something to handle both imges + paths? To me Sounds more like a bug. I am using Amanith PC emulation, if so, the only option would be to report it…


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A major challenge for businesses is how to turn large, convoluted data sets into information that users can leverage to improve operations. Meanwhile, as companies struggle to find the best approach, their data sets continue growing larger and more convoluted, while some of their competitors turn their own analyses into actionable insight and competitive advantage.
Data mining software addresses this exact problem. It's a core application in most business intelligence initiatives and it's often the only tool able to extract insight from mountains of data. And as computing and application costs continue to become more affordable, data mining is no longer an exclusively enterprise-class endeavor. Now, even companies in the SMB space are rolling out data mining initiatives and reaping their rewards.
In this buyer's guide, we address the following points and answer the following questions:
What Is Data Mining Software?
Data mining software allows users to apply semi-automated and predictive analyses to parse raw data and find new ways to look at information. It's typically applied to very large data sets, those with many variables or related functions, or any data set too large or complex for human analysis.
Some examples of how data mining is used in different industries include:
- Ecommerce companies use data mining to analyze visitor demographics and discover how to deliver a better customer experience. They might, for example, find that some products sell better during certain times of the day. Using this insight they could increase sales by reconfiguring which products are displayed based on time of day.
- Insurance companies use data mining to find patterns in populations that can inform the processes of underwriting and policy management. Armed with these insights, they can offer more attractive policies tailored to specific customer segments.
- Service providers use data mining to better cater to their clients' needs and make suggestions for the most effective upsell opportunities. Cable and internet service providers regularly mine customer data to improve their service offerings.
- Governmental agencies use data mining to better understand many large-scale social, political and economic changes. A local government might, for example, discover better ways to develop its road and traffic infrastructure by mining the data created from the monitoring of traffic patterns throughout the week.
It's also important to note what data mining software does not do. Namely, it doesn't collect the data in the first place. Most data mining solutions are designed to work with pre-existing data sets. Buyers are advised to pay close attention to the language and descriptions used in vendor marketing materials to ensure the tool they buy is the actual solution they need.
Common Features of Data Mining Software
Data mining platforms often include a variety of tools, sometimes borrowing from other, related fields such as machine learning, artificial intelligence and statistical modeling. The offerings do vary from vendor to vendor, but there are some features common across the board. These can include:
|Data pre-processing
|Help convert existing data-sets into the proper formats necessary in order to begin the mining process.
|Cluster analysis
|These tools can categorize (or cluster) groups of entries based on predetermined variables, or can suggest variables which will yield the most distinct clustering.
|Anomaly detection
|A common data mining tool that finds outliers and anomalous entries in vast, complex and/or interrelated data-sets.
|Process automation
|Data mining, by definition, requires automation. But different data mining platforms require different degrees of human input and oversight.
Benefits of Data Mining
Data mining applications help users discover correlations and connections within large data sets. These often include numerous entries with multiple variables and can even contain mixed structured and unstructured data. Because of the size and complexity of these data sets, any valuable correlations within them would have gone unnoticed if not for the tireless algorithmic analysis performed with data mining software.
While specific goals vary from company to company, we can say that companies generally implement data mining systems to:
- Accelerate discovery with semi-automated analyses
- Segment customers into groups based on homogeneous activities and demographics
- Generate models to predict future trends
A classic example of how these systems can be used is with customer purchasing patterns at grocery stores. If shoppers tend to buy items such as toilet paper, diapers and alcohol before the weekend, retailers can place these items closer together to maximize revenue. Store owners can further capitalize on this opportunity by running specials on these items to encourage additional purchases.
Key Considerations for Selecting Data Mining Software
When evaluating data mining software, you should consider the following:
Best-of-breed or integrated suite? Buyers should consider whether they want a stand-alone, best-of-breed data mining application or would prefer to go with the data mining module from their existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) provider. If buyers choose to evaluate stand-alone systems, they should discuss integration capabilities with these pure-play vendors.
Do you need to invest in hardware? Businesses without IT resources (or a budget to invest in new, faster servers) may choose to instead host their data in the cloud. However, in-memory processing advances have improved the speed and capability of these applications, lessening the IT investment previously necessary to effectively utilize data mining applications.
Do you have the talent to utilize these applications? Like with any software application, data mining solutions require the right questions to discover useful answers within data. For example, if you are evaluating data mining tools from enterprise vendor SAS, do you have analysts versed in the sample, explore, modify, model, assess (SEMMA) framework used in SAS data mining applications? Businesses must have sophisticated users to make the most out of their investment in these systems.
Recent Events
Microsoft acquires LinkedIn. June, 2016: Microsoft corporation announced it had reached a deal to acquire the professional networking site LinkedIn for $26.2B. It's generally agreed that the software giant is making the acquisition in large part to improve its data mining capabilities with LinkedIn's vast stores of user data.
Data mining gives researchers insight into human behaviors. June, 2016: Researchers at Harvard University, Cornell University and Microsoft Corporation announce results of a study that looks at the factors that influence how people make decisions when under pressure.
Some consumers more open to data mining. June, 2016: As data mining becomes more familiar to consumers, it's becoming clear that some are more willing to have their data mined than others.


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Missouri Mom Tries To Pass Law To Save Newborns' Lives
JEFFERSON CITY - Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week starts February 7 and one Missouri mother is hoping it will influence state lawmakers.
Congenital heart defects are the most common birth defects in the U.S., but Missouri is one of many states that does not require hospitals to do a test that detects CHDs once a baby is born.
The test is called pulse oximetry screening and it determines the amount of oxygen levels in the blood. Low oxygen levels typically indicate a newborn has a CHD and about 40,000 infants are born with CHDs each year.
Kelly Manz, a mother in Kansas City, is trying to get a law passed for Missouri to mandate that all hospitals do the screening on every newborn. Her four-year-old daughter Chloe was born with a CHD. Manz said Chloe's CHD would have gone undiagnosed had she not insisted doctors do the screening.
"I just felt like something wasn't right. She didn't look like she was breathing well to me. She wasn't taking very deep breathes and so I mentioned it to the nurses," Manz said. "After a few hours of insisting that I just felt like something was wrong they finally took her back to the [nursery] and that's when they did the pulse oximetry screening and then that led to them to see that her oxygen levels were low."
Dr. Bernard Eskridge, an MD for MU Children's Hospital, said pulse oximetry screenings typically take a matter of seconds and many, if not most, hospitals already have the equipment.
"We already had a pulse oximeter. We had a means to do this testing without any incurring any cost to us or the patients, so we thought it would be something good to offer our patients and offer some peace of mind," Eskridge said.
Despite the state having no law requiring the test, MU Children's Hospital has its own policy that requires all newborns to undergo a screening. No newborns at the MU Children's Hospital have tested positive for CHDs in the past two-and-a-half-years since the hospital started doing the test on every newborn, but Eskridge said the test is still worth doing.
"All we're doing is having a light shine through a foot or a hand. There are going to be infants that we can pick up who have heart disease that is severe enough that would potentially require surgery and who, if we didn't catch, would come in very sick, potentially even on the verge of death," Eskridge said.
Although some hospitals understand the importance of the test, this is the fourth year in a row Manz has tried to get Chloe's Law passed.
"It's been frustrating and it's been a lot of hard work and because I've always believed that it's such an easy test and it's painless and it costs less than a diaper change and the hospitals already have the equipment to do it. So, I just don't understand why every newborn cannot be screened for this, why it's not a law," Manz said.
Governor Jay Nixon proclaimed January as Missouri Birth Defects Awareness and Prevention Month and also recognized February 7-14 as Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week. Manz was there for the proclamation and said she feels very close to getting Chloe's Law passed.
"We have a ton of support from the community now, March of Dimes, American Heart Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics...," Manz said. "We really hope that this will be the year."


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Guardian: The Lonely and Great God
Is it better to live forever or to finally be able to die? Kim Shin (Gong Yoo) is a decorated military general during the Goryeo Dynasty who is betrayed by the jealous king he served. When Kim Shin is faced with death instead of honor after fighting a mighty battle, God turns Kim Shin into a goblin instead, tasked with protecting certain people from the life of misery. But immortality is wearing on Kim Shin, and he longs to find the prophesied human bride who can set his soul free.Kim Shin becomes accidental roommates with Wang Yeo (Lee Dong Wook), the grim reaper who ushers people's souls into the afterlife. Kim Shin's nephew, Yoo Deok Hwa (Yook Sungjae), is a rebellious chaebol heir whose family has been caretakers of the goblin for many generations. Ji Eun Tak (Kim Go Eun) is a high school senior whose mother was saved from an accident by Kim Shin 19 years ago, and ever since then, she has been able to communicate with the dead. Sunny (Yoo In Na), the owner of a chicken restaurant and Eun Tak's boss, crosses path with Wang Yeo and becomes smitten with him.Can Eun Tak be the true "goblin bride" with the power to release Kim Shin from his eternal misery? "Guardian: The Lonely and Great God", also known as "Goblin", is a 2016-2017 South Korean drama series directed by Lee Eung Bok. It is written by Kim Eun Sook, who also wrote the very successful dramas: "Heirs" (2013) and "Descendants of the Sun" (2016).


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50x Stock:
20 g NaOH
pH to 8.0 with approx 120 g H3BO3 (boric acid powder)
bring to 1 L with dH2O
NOTE: This stock will precipitate over time, requiring heat to re-dissolve crystallized salts before dilution.
1x Working Buffer:
20 ml of 50x stock
980 ml dH2O
NOTE: The pH of the working solution will be higher than that of the 50x stock
NOTE: Do not re-use 1x solution for more than a day or it will go fuzzy. Really.
Translated to concentrations:
50x Stock: 500 mM NaOH, pHed to 8.0 w/ H3BO3
1x Working buffer: 10 mM NaOH, pHed to 8.5 w/ H3BO3
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It looks like this guy is learning how not to express himself.
A retired New York City firefighter was found guilty last Friday of resisting arrest after allegedly being caught spray-painting love notes to Madonna outside her Manhattan apartment in 2010, E! News has confirmed.
Robert Linhart now faces up to a year in jail after failing to obey police attempts to take him into custody on Sept. 21, 2010.
U.S. & World
Madonna's alleged stalker trial-bound for second time
Among the messages the needy fan wrote to the Material Mom on cardboard signs affixed to his SUV were "I Need You" and "If it's yes, my dream will come true. If it's no, I will go. XXX."
After the trial was over, jurors told the New York Post that while the first responder had the right to make his signs under the First Amendment and blast obnoxious music from the curb of Madonna's Central Park West building, there was no excuse for causing a commotion by flailing his arms and refusing officers when they tried to cuff him.
Linhart was acquitted on a separate charge of resisting arrest dating from a bust three days prior.
The Queen of Pop's publicist and her defense attorney, Lawrence LaBrew, were unavailable for comment on the matter.
Madonna restrains sign-wielding fan
However the legal eagle told the paper that his client would appeal the conviction, noting that Linhart was prohibited by a judge from having a doctor testify that he had sustained a torn rotator cuff in his shoulder when police tried to collar him the first time.
That injury, said LaBrew, prompted Linhart to resist the second arrest attempt.
Upon leaving court, when asked whether he planned to attend Madonna's concerts at Madison Square Garden tonight and tomorrow, Linhart quipped, "If she invites me."
His next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 2.


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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Two dozen members and associates of a subset of the Bloods street gang have been indicted on an array of racketeering and trafficking charges that put all at risk of a possible life sentence.
Federal prosecutors in Alexandria said Wednesday that the indictments targeted the Nine Tray Gangsters, a local offshoot of the Bloods.
Authorities charge that the gang dealt in drugs, forced prostitution and even counterfeit currency in multiple states, including Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina.
Most of the 24 who were indicted are northern Virginia residents, including Prince William and Fauquier counties.
Eight other gang members and associates were previously indicted in Richmond and pleaded guilty to drug charges.
Gang trafficking has been a top priority of federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Norfolk, Va. - Sunday was the final day of the Hampton Roads Collegiate Invitational and the hosts Monarchs of ODU closed out the tournament by winning the men's doubles competition in the A bracket.
In what was an all ODU final, the team of Eidy Igarashi and Alex Seleznev defeated teammates Dan Couzens and Rodrigo Souza, 8-3 in the championship match of the men's A doubles bracket.
Individually, Seleznev was also looking to win the singles championship of the A1 division, but he fell in a three-set battle to Mustafa Genscoy of George Washington, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
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Above: City Lights 2: Planet Of Fear, cover by Jonathan King. Copyright Chad Taylor & Jonathan King 2012.
The second chapter of the thoughtful sci-fi serial City Lights by Chad Taylor & Jonathan King is now available to read at The Brighter Future website HERE (and Chapter 1 HERE). In this chapter, scientist Jim Green debriefs Pentagon military generals on his potential discovery of alien life on a distant planet, and what it may mean for mankind.Above: Dr Green debates the potential threat to Earth from the existence of alien life-forms. Art by Jonathan King. Copyright Chad Taylor & Jonathan King 2012.
Once again this strip nicely skews the conventions of the sci-fi genre, playing off the fantasies of alien invasions embedded in our popular culture and contrasting it with the reality of our planet's limited safe guards and technological reach. It will be interesting to see where this goes next. As the saying goes: To be continued...


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The Danube Zollernalb Trail is the big brother of the Danube Peaks Trail. If you put the two hiking trails together, you get a major hiking tour through south-west Germany.
We begin our hike at Beuron Archabbey and walk along both banks of the Danube. It is an athletic route: we ascend a total of 1,352 metres on the first stage from Beuron to Hausen, that's an alpine level of climbing! We branch off from the Danube, which continues on its way towards Vienna and the Black Sea, and head north.
We pass many Jurassic limestone rock faces which sprout up from green meadows like grey flecks. The landscape reminds us a little of the Scottish Highlands. We reach the "Swabian Highlands" via the Zollernalb. The Zollernalb is named after the House of Hohenzollern, a dynasty in southern Germany which appointed all Kings of Prussia and German Emperors from 1871 onwards.
The regal Danube Zollernalb Trail finally takes us south once again in a large arc along the Danube to the Lemberg mountain. The circular route connects to the Danube Peaks Trail here.
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Re: Drunk on golf: 99 Bottles of Beerby eyepopslikeamosquito (Bishop)
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Despite being shocked that Jasper and I had totally different 101 stroke solutions to the Saving Time challenge, I had a feeling that Rhebus and I would have similar solutions to this one. There just seemed to be much less scope for magic formulae and general weirdness in the beer bottle game. I've contacted Rhebus and am pleased to report that he was as curious as I was and happy to compare our solutions in the hope of unearthing an even shorter one. Here is his 162 stroke winning entry:
If you compare his with mine:
you'll see some similarities and some differences. The major difference is that Rhebus used a five stroke shorter terminating regex, namely /\n99/ instead of my /, 99.*\n\n/, that unfortunately cost five strokes elsewhere: two strokes for the extra 99 at the front of the printed string and three for the terminating , @a. (instead of $&) at its end.
Can these two solutions be combined somehow to produce a shorter one? I can assure you that many variations are possible but I couldn't find any reductions. So if you can further shorten it, you can claim to be the inventor of the shortest solution to the most popular golf game of all. :)
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Recognizing that Washington doesn't have all the answers, the two top lawmakers in charge of reforming the tax code teamed up Thursday to launch TaxReform.gov, a website that allows the public to weigh in on how tax reform should take shape.
"Over the past two years we've held more than 50 hearings and heard from hundreds of experts on how to fix the tax code, to make it simpler and fairer for families and spark a more prosperous economy," said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont. (right), in a statement. "Now it's time to hear from the most important stakeholders—the American people."
Through TaxReform.gov as well as Twitter, Baucus said, "all Americans will be able to weigh in and participate directly in the debate."
The web site, developed in partnership with the Joint Committee on Taxation, also incorporates a Twitter feed, @simplertaxes.
House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., noted in the same statement that the tax code "is littered with special interest provisions that Washington has put in over the last 27 years. It is time to go line-by-line through the tax code and clean it up. There is no reason Americans should have to spend over 6 billion hours and over $160 billion every year just trying to comply with the tax code."
Camp (right) said the two committees were "joining together in a nonpartisan way to invite you to weigh in on this debate. We want you, the American people, to share your story and your ideas about how our tax code should work."
The website includes two sections—"Why reform the tax code?" and "What's already underway?"—and an online form for visitors to share their stories and ideas.
The initiative takes a page from the tax overhaul in 1985. Then-House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., encouraged the American public to send letters in support of tax reform in what became known as the Write Rosty Campaign. As a result, he received more than 75,000 supportive letters and post cards, helping lead to the Tax Reform Act of 1986.
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Head Like A Hole (halo)
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Head Like A Hole (also known as Halo 3) is the second single by Nine Inch Nails, and the second single from debut album Pretty Hate Machine. It was released on March 22, 1990 by TVT Records in the US, and on September 14, 1991 in the UK. The single also serves as a companion remix album of sorts to Pretty Hate Machine.
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US Version
12" Vinyl
Also released as a 10" vinyl with fold-out poster of exclusive Mark Prent artwork, featuring Slate as the A-side and Copper on the B-side.
UK Version
Also released on 12" vinyl (1 & 2 on A-side, 3 on B-side) and 7" vinyl (Slate on A-side, Copper on B-side).
Australia Version
You Get What You Deserve
This is a unique German CD promo with different artwork. It has no Halo designation.
Head Like A Hole was released in maxi-single (US) and standard single (UK and Australia) formats. Despite the absence of the original album version on either release, the US Maxi version is longer than Pretty Hate Machine, thanks to inclusion of 5 tracks from the limited UK edition of the Down In It single (Halo 1): 2 versions of "Terrible Lie" and 3 of "Down In It", all of which had only been available on vinyl when this maxi-single was due for release; shortly thereafter, Halo 1 was released on CD by TVT as well.
The maxi-single's disc art reveals the tempo for "Head Like A Hole" (115 BPM) and "Terrible Lie" (88 BPM). On the US version, there's an unlisted bonus track featuring a clip of Heather "Princess" Day from Dance Party USA shouting "Let's hear it for Nine Inch Nails! Woooo! They're GOOD!" Also the first track on the UK single version is mislabeled: instead of Slate it should read Clay (that mix was used for the "Head Like A Hole" video).
The UK version's artwork was originally intended to be the sole artwork, but was replaced for the wider release by TVT Records due to the colour printing costing too much.[1]
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Halo I-IV
Halo I-IV is a limited edition vinyl box set released by Concord/Bicycle Music for Record Store Day in November 2015. It contains the domestic versions of the 12" singles for Head Like A Hole, Sin and Down In It on 120 gram vinyl, as well as the original version of Pretty Hate Machine on 180 gram vinyl. None of the music in this set is remastered.
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Health Literacy Advisor software is now available!
The Health Literacy Advisor evaluation software is now available for in-library use on a laptop computer at Eccles Library. Use this software to evaluate the literacy level of your patient education documents or other materials. The software helps you rework document text for easier reading by patients. Available in English and Spanish. For more information, …Read More »
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I know I've said it for a while, at times I feel like a broken record.
"Life is crazy."
"One of these days it will slow down . . ."
"Just get through this week. . . "
Yet the reality is that life is crazy. Life is busy. Life is heavy for many of us.
Such has been our life this past month.
The daily grind our life naturally holds.
Trying to keep a grasp on priorities and the important stuff amidst limited time tables and availability.
God given responsibilities, opportunities and callings.
The weight of raising a family amidst each child's individual struggles, the importance of a marriage tended and a relationship with God that takes fighting some days to carve out time for.
Hard situations that beg our time and energy.
And then the small detail of a child on the other side of the world that holds half your heart . . .
It's felt like alot lately.
At times too much. Beyond me.
Getting through day by day has often been the goal.
And then there are days you receive a gift. Something to remind you what it's all for and the perspective that is needed.
Today was one of those days.
In the simple sharing of a moment, my friend Tami graced me such a needed gift.
This past fall, Ryan and I were able to do a "just cause" shoot with my fabulously gifted and long time friend Tami. She's typically a wedding photographer (seriously, if you know someone, pass her name along. She is living out God's gift in her life) . .but does really limited family shots and then couples photography and had offered a special "just 'cause" session last year that Ryan and I had taken advantage of. I hadn't known why but just felt like we should and we waited to use it.
Maybe it was the season, maybe it was time stretching on in our adoption journey, but fairly soon I was certain I knew why this session was important to me for us to book.
For each of our girls, we have photos of mommy and daddy waiting for them. The anticipation, the journey, the "growing."
Granted we have chronicled our adoption journey. Photos have been taken each step of the way and we have documented every number closer to our child, the paperwork, the fingerprints . .. the heartaches and heart hopes.
Yet I wanted our child to know the deeper part of our longing. Of a mommy and daddy who love God first, each other second, and who pray every single night together for the child God will yet bless them with.
I wanted our child to see his/her mommy's and daddy's love story amidst loving his/her creation into our family.
The way our child comes into our family may be different. The timing may be altered. Pieces of the story may be unknown.
And yet the same stretching, "growing" and falling in love is just as miraculously written by the God who knows all, creates all and loves all.
It's a miracle story.
One God gets all the glory for and one where He is what sustains us and holds us through it.
Every dollar raised. Every piece of paperwork signed. Every day waited.
All part of a miracle story of His calling, His provision and His timing.
And just like with each child I have carried physically, as I carry this child in my heart, He hears our prayers, our fears and our dreams for our child.
As I looked at picture by picture that Tami took that day, it was as if each picture spoke a reminder of His faithfulness thus far and of His promises to be faithful still. That our child is held as intimately in the palm of His hand as every one of our three girls that were carried in my womb. He carries him/her for me and oh I find hope and peace in that.
I can't wait until the day our child's face can grace new pictures . . ..but until then, I'm thankful for ones that speak of His love already so present in our lives. They whisper that God is still writing a beautiful love story and I can't wait to see its fruition as we press on in the waiting.
From the bottom of my heart, Tam, thanks.
To view some sneak peeks from our session on Tami's photography blog, visit here.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
When life takes a "pause"
I know I've said it for a while, at times I feel like a broken record.
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